19 YEARS!!

Yes Larry and I have been married for 19 years now. Our anniversary was spent golfing, having a nice big lunch with his family, driving to Geneva and then spending the evening with Tabby and her husband Steve (a friend from college) down at Geneva on the Lake. :)

Visiting Larry's Family

We weren't on the stick about taking pictures! Hopefully Larry's father will send us some that we can add to this post. Larry's sister Jackie graciously invited us to stay with her and her family while we visited. She lives in Rushville which is outside of Lanacaster, Ohio - about 45 minutes from Columbus. We had a great time swimming and just hanging out with everyone. We went to the Heath Pool one Monday - very nice with a lazy river, water slides and diving boards. On Tuesday all the guys went golfing at the same course that they played the day that Larry and I got married 19 years before.

Here are a few shots of goodbyes after lunch just before we left to come up to Geneva to visit Renee's family.

Reflecting on Our Adventure

It’s been hard being apart with Larry living in Dubai. This past week it has been nice to be together again despite all the stress of moving. Its hard to believe how much came together in the end – selling my car at the last minute, getting all of the paperwork completed for Osiris to go with us, Lou offering to keep Seven and Cassie at the house for 2 years, and more. We’ve heard that experiences like this really bring a family closer together – we are all looking forward to that.

New Family Mascot – Ozzy Goes on Tour

We have adopted a goofy looking opossum stuffed animal that Dani won in a machine at Friendly’s in a town south of Akron, OH. His name is Ozzy. Stay tuned for more updates of Ozzy’s Tour locations.
















Our waitress, Alicia was extremely nice. Dani and Elle even took their picture with her and we gave her the address of our blog.

Leaving for Ohio

We left for Ohio on Friday night. The plan was to leave around 5, but it was 7pm before we got out of there. We made a short pit stop at the Connal’s to return their car (aka the red pimpmobile) that they so graciously allowed us to borrow – lots of tears. We sure will miss the best “old” neighbors in the world!

We (or rather Larry) drove for about 4.5 hours. We stopped at 5 motels until we found one with a vacancy. It was a Days Inn with a night club – weird heh? It was icky but it was a place to sleep and shower in the morning. We took off again about 9:00 the next morning. Here are a few lovely pictures of Larry having a great time driving, driving, driving, Dani sitting in the back seat looking like a budha and Elle hiding because she didn’t want her picture taken.
Larry plays silly games with himself while driving – going thru the alphabet seeing if he can name a band for each letter, calculating how much farther we have to go, telling us random bits of information about the cars that we pass, etc.

We sold Renee's car

We sold my car! Now when you see someone driving around town in my familiar orange Murano it won't be me, actually you won't see it anyway. We sold it to a couple in Abilene, TX. Dani and Elle were happy that it went to some Texan's like them.

The Bowin’s are HOME!

Hurray that the Bowin’s are home! We got to see them briefly on Thursday and Friday. Bummer that our overlap was not longer.